The S.A. Minister for all sorts of things including mental health, is going to give the RSPCA more than half a million dollars for a couple more inspectors, and has banned animals under 200kg from participating in rodeos.
This means no more calf roping or bronco branding in South Australia. Gail Gago’s press release: http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/animalwelfare/pdfs/rodeo_news_release_4july2007.pdf
Gail is quoted as saying that they do not intend to ban rodeos: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/04/1969404.htm
But if you ban the use of animals and introduce measures that are not economically feasible for bush rodeos (such as the compulsory attendance of vets in remote areas where there are no vets within a radius of hundreds of kilometres), rodeos will obviously be killed off by stealth. Clever, eh, then no-one can accuse Gail of deliberately setting out to get rid of rodeos – ‘it was just an accident!’
A web search for this topic will illustrate that it has been widely discussed by every extremist animal rights nutter organisation, they’re happily upfront about wanting to ban rodeos outright. It’s very clear where the idea for the SA legislation has come from, and of course it will only be the thin edge of the wedge.
Good on you Gail, for dancing to the tune of these hypocritical extremists, is that what the people who voted you in, had in mind? Clearly there is absolutely no understanding that rodeo animals are well cared for, and that rodeos are one of the few social and fund-raising events left in small and isolated communities, since bush racing has been disappearing at a rate of knots.
This SA government decision is just another indicator that the RSPCA has extremist members hiding within what is still commonly viewed as a reasonable and conservative organisation. The Victorian RSPCA doesn’t even bother pretending any more – it has clearly been completely hijacked by extremists. The founding RSPCA members would be rolling over in their graves.
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